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December 1, 2009

IRS takes your tax credit questions at noon

Reminder to all those with homebuyer tax credit questions: IRS spokesman Jim Dupree will take them -- and do his best to answer them -- during a live chat on the Consuming Interests blog today.

The chat begins at noon.

Dupree will also answer other tax-break questions, if you have any.

Posted by Jamie Smith Hopkins at 10:57 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)
Categories: First-time buyer tax credit, Repeat buyer tax credit

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Will my client qualify for the 2009 tax credit? She currently lives in a trailer house (50x16) a 1958 single wide, which will be condemed and should have been 2 yrs ago. The trailer is on her own land. She is purchasing a new manufactured home in Dec 2009.

Janet

Posted by: Janet Walter | December 4, 2009 4:46 PM

Janet, the IRS has said that mobile-home purchases do qualify for the first-time home buyer tax credit. Whether your client would qualify for the credit of up to $6,500 intended for repeat buyers, I don't know -- I haven't seen this situation addressed. But it sounds like she might.

Posted by: Jamie Smith Hopkins | December 4, 2009 5:17 PM

Is there any tax credit for purchasing a home in March 2009, not a first time buyer and did not purchase after 11/6.

Posted by: Robin | December 8, 2009 3:57 PM

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About Jamie Smith Hopkins

Jamie Smith Hopkins, a Baltimore Sun reporter since 1999, writes about the regional economy. Her reporting on the housing market has won national and local awards. Hopkins is a Columbia native and has lived in Maryland all her life, save for 10 months spent covering schools in Ames, Iowa.
She trained to become a wonk by spending large chunks of time as a geek and an insufferable know-it-all.
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